Emma's Flat, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. [Feb 1st, Evening, Marvel Time//Thursday Afternoon, Fandom Time.]

[icecoldfrost]

It was the end of J-Term for ESU. A time when students tended to celebrate being half-way through the year, the grueling schedule of a J-Term behind them, and the rumors of an East Coast Spring on the horizon.

For two - very tipsy - young ladies in Bed-Stuy by the names of Emma Grace Frost and Candace 'Candy' Southern, however, it was a time to drunk-dial or Skype everyone they knew, so that they could wave their temporary diplomas at them. Or, in Emma's case, three of her four diplomas.

[OOC: Open for calls, texts, and Skype sessions, if you think Emma would call you to gloat.]

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[icecoldfrost]

"I'll bring you back a picture, Candy, next time I go visit Jack," Emma promised, reaching slightly off-screen to pick up a shot glass and down the contents. "Now do me a favor and get me some more shots so I can have a moment to make kissy-faces at my boyfriend without you being a total voyeur?"

Candy blew Jack a kiss and flounced off to the kitchen, leaving them 'alone' (ish) for the moment.

[bitten_notshy]

"Alone at last," Jack said, through a little chuckle. "Hi. Congratulations, Madame Master."

[icecoldfrost]

"I'm done," Emma said, sounding slightly dazed by the fact. "Well, done with the big things. I have one last two-hundred level class for psych, and I'm taking two phys-ed classes and a bio so I stay qualified for the fencing team for spring. But those won't be any work. I'm done."

"We're both done with undergrad, and the world hasn't ended yet. I think I'm in shock."

[bitten_notshy]

"I am too," Jack admitted. "It really hasn't sunk in yet, to be honest. Growing up I never imagined college was a thing I wanted to do, and now ..."

He shook his head. "Further proof we're amazing, I suppose."

[icecoldfrost]

"Utterly astonishing, that's us," she preened happily.

--only to be interrupted by a voice yelling from the kitchen, "Show him the newspaper, you dork!"

"Harpy!" Emma yelled back, but she was grinning as she reached to the side to pick up a newspaper. "So, every year, the Times business section does a profile on the top three grads from the ESU program? It's the closest they get to running an out-and-out gossip session for anything not the downfall of some titan."

She flipped a few pages before holding it up for Jack to see. Or, see as best he could on phone-Skype. There was a picture of Candy and Emma standing back-to-back, and looking utterly fabulous and fierce. "The hideous title of the article is 'Hail to the Queens: Girls Rule and Boys Drool,' and the interviewer kept trying to get us to say horrible things about each other, but the article itself actually turned out quite decent. I'm thinking of laminating it and sending a copy to Winston. It doesn't mention him once."

[bitten_notshy]

"I hate that they did that," Jack noted. "Trying to turn it into a catfight, not the article. The article's brilliant and Winston absolutely needs a copy. Who was the third student?"

[icecoldfrost]

"Ryan Choi. Sweet guy, more interested in his SCIENCE! than his business homework, but he got the MBA to make sure he could understand and control how his work was traded and where his financing was coming from," Emma said happily. "Proof that nice guys don't always finish last."

"Maybe I should arrange to have, like, a copy sent to Winston at work, too..." Emma was practically vibrating with happiness. "And now I get to take a break, while you dive into the soul-devouring world of law school!"

[bitten_notshy]

"I have a month before they start chomping bits out of my soul!" Jack protested. "But are you actually going to take a break? I can't imagine that."

[icecoldfrost]

"I even took two whole weeks off work," Emma informed him proudly. "...I don't suppose I can seduce you away for a long weekend? Possibly involving a trip somewhere with sunshine, room service, and no internet so I can't check my email?"

Emma loved New York. Emma also loved occasionally going on very sexy vacations with other people.

[nyc-npcs.livejournal.com]

"Say yes, Jack," Candy encouraged, popping back into view to plop down on Emma's lap and grab a shot glass off the tray she was carrying to shove into Emma's hand. "She's got this tall, dark, and brooding one making eyes at her, and you need to save her before she succumbs to his attempts at wooing."

"Which, have been hilariously ineffective so far, since Emma doesn't flirt back any more than she flirts with anyone else, which is to say he's mostly the recipient of scathing sarcasm. But, well, men." Candy saluted Jack with her own shot glass. "You're all weird."

[bitten_notshy]

"Funny, I was thinking we should take a trip before you even said that," Jack said with a little chuckle. "Great minds and such. Pick the place and I'll pay for the hotel, if you get the portal fees."

There was real eagerness in his tone. He loved the idea of a few days on a beach with Emma, with nothing to think about but each other.

[icecoldfrost]

"Everyone does Mexico... how does Italy sound?" she asked, clinking her shot glass against Candy's before downing it.

They'd done Greece - Greece had seers that foretold shit things. Russia was out. France had been her last trip with Christian.

[bitten_notshy]

"I haven't had to speak Italian since I was 12," Jack admitted with a little laugh. "It sounds divine. We'll be completely away from anything familiar."